European Commission Penalizes TikTok with 345 Million Euro Fine for Mismanagement of Children’s Data
DUBLIN: TikTok has been fined 345 million euros ($370 million) for breaching data protection laws in the European Union on the handling of children’s personal data, its top regulator in the bloc said on Friday. The Chinese-owned short video platform, which has seen rapid growth among teenagers around the world in recent years, breached several EU data protection laws between July 31, 2020 and December 31, 2020, Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) said. in the statement. This is the first time that ByteDance-owned TikTok has been reprimanded by the DPC,…
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